May 30, 2008 – GE Healthcare IT and Kryptiq, a provider of healthcare information technology solutions, entered a joint agreement for GE to exclusively distribute Kryptiq’s eScriptMessenger (eSM) in conjunction with GE's Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Centricity Practice Solution.

The offering aims to provide a proven ePrescribing solution benefiting physicians with speed and ease in managing prescription activities—addressing a critical need to improve patient safety and care quality.

May 30, 2008 - St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Virginia has completed the implementation of Soarian, a health information management system from Siemens Healthcare.

The facility will use both Soarian Clinicals and Soarian Financials. St. Mary’s hopes to use Soarian to improve productivity and drive throughput, while making critical information available to authorized caregivers at all points of care.

May 30, 2008 – ECRI and Institute Phoenix Data Systems, Inc., provider of AIMS Equipment Maintenance Management Software, announced a new agreement to provide medical device data integration for hospitals’ computerized maintenance management systems (CMMSs).

The Phoenix Data integration will offer hospitals interfaces between: AIMS and ECRI Institute’s Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System (UMDNS), Health Devices International Sourcebase manufacturer codes, and Alerts Tracker, a Web-based, automated patient safety system for alert and recall management.

May 30, 2008 — Today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, eHealth Global Technologies introduced a new medical record management service, eHealthConnect for Clinical Trials, aiming to gather scattered patient records and imaging needed for clinical trials, regardless of location and format.

eHealthConnect for Clinical Trials is a service with reportedly enhanced workflow to support the specific needs of clinical trials benefiting trial sponsors, participants and examiners.

May 30, 2008 - Microwaves with frequencies from a few hundred gigahertz (GHz) up to slightly over 1 terahertz (THz) could be used to detect skin cancer or image dental flaws beneath the enamel, according to a study published in the May issue of the journal Physical Review E.

May 29, 2008 - For the seventh year in a row, GE Healthcare has won Omega Management Group’s prestigious NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for excellence in customer satisfaction and loyalty in servicing anesthesia machines and patient monitors.

May 29, 2008 - ECRI Institute issued a priority medical device alert on its Web site recommending immediate volume testing of Curlin Medical’s 2000 CMS, 4000 CMS, 6000 CMS and PainSmart series pumps for potential overinfusion of medications.

May 29, 2008 - ECRI Institute, an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has issued a priority medical device alert recommending immediate volume testing of Curlin Medical’s 2000 CMS, 4000 CMS, 6000 CMS, and PainSmart series pumps for potential overinfusion of medications.

May 29, 2008 - IntelliDOT Corp. today said it is collaborating with Cisco to enhance the wireless, hand-held IntelliDOT CAREt System bar-code point-of-care (BPOC) device to help quickly locate critical equipment.

The CAREt will be integrated with the Cisco Context Aware Mobility solution, via an open API that runs on the new Cisco 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine. The system can be used to help find IV infusion pumps, portable vital signs monitoring equipment, hand-held electronic thermometers, wheelchairs, and even patient medical charts and medical personnel.

May 29, 2008 – IDC was awarded a contract by the central purchasing unit for medical hospitals in Uttrakahand, India for five X-Series 1600 DR systems with X4C imaging detectors, the single largest purchase ever placed for DR equipment by the government in India, reportedly representing an active commitment to upgrade patient care throughout the country.

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